Well, hopefully you aren't being fed fish that were found already dead of unknown causes, i.e. the fish were alive before being killed to turn them into food for you (and gutted, so any undigested GloFish won't be in your food either).
Me, I have no compulsion towards eating fish every Friday, or any other day for that matter.
I don't want to eat anything that's eaten something harmful to me, as that substance could be present in high enough concentrations to make me sick, or dead.
Better steer clear of all fish from Japan then, in case they may have taken a nibble from a Japanese pufferfish.
Surely the same answers could apply to multiple blocks of code in multiple files, specified by range of line numbers, and further that IBM would rather have the information so organized than have to collate a line-by-line restatement of plaintiff's rights (i.e. grepping dead trees). The specificity by line numbers of blocks of code and the answers to the interrogatories referencing the specific blocks and therefore applying to every line referenced in the block could easily fit on 60 pages.
However, that only works for lines referenced as being in Linux code, not for the corresponding lines in their proprietary code. That would also need to be spelled out including the contents of every line. Disclosure of the lines in their proprietary code is necessary to verify the claim that it is their code. Disclosure of lines in Linux only lets you trace the history of the code in Linux.
Unless their code is already disclosed to IBM, then ranges of line numbers there is sufficient. Only the public would need full disclosure of the contents of all lines.
I know that Marvin could read it in Arthur's brain waves but where does it say that Eddie could?
They're both Sirius Cybernetic Corporation products with Genuine People Personalities. I wouldn't be surprised if the self-satisifed doors in the Heart of Gold and the precognitive lifts at the Guide's offices didn't also know.
Yeah, but "think of a number" isn't a question - so that obviously isn't the right one.
We're talking Douglas Adams here, not Alex Trebek. It would be perfect for him to have the Ultimate Question not even be in the form of a question.
And it explains the answer: the answer itself is meaningless, a number pulled out to provide the initial seed value for the Universe.
It also matches what he did in "Mostly Harmless" wrt Stavromula Beta: at the end of chapter 4, there's mention that Alpha was Stavro's original club in New York, now run by his brother Karl, and there being little love lost between Stavro and Karl Mueller, and if you were quick enough to figure it out on the first read, you thus knew then about Stavro Mueller's Beta.
You notice more on the rereadings of the 5-book trilogy than on the first.
Head 1: "Hey, what?!"
Head 2: "Hey, what?" 1: "The ship picked them up all by itself!" 2: "So what?" 1: "So what? The ship picked-- oh, go back to sleep, will you?" 2: "Ey."
And:
1: "Spooky, eh?"
2: "And dark." Ford Prefect: "You've still got your sunglasses on." 1: "Too right!"
They did however keep the lines brief. And most of the time the third arm was tucked in Napoleon-style.
Remember also that the DVD and VHS releases have added footage that wasn't in the original run of the series, and the VHS release cut the line, "Arthur bruised his upper arm," when they re-edited the 6 episodes onto two tapes with one credit sequence each.
Except the real Ultimate Question wasn't in that form at all. Marvin knew it. Eddie knew it. And both said it in the third book:
"I gave a speech once," he said suddenly, and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
And again here, more blatently:
"That's a pity," said Arthur. "I'd like to hear what he [Prak] had to say. Presumably he would know what the Ultimate Question to the Ultimate Answer is. It's always bothered me that we never found out."
"Think of a number," said [Eddie] the computer, "any number."
Just a few days ago I found a DVD of the 1981 film version in a video store.
That would be the TV series.
There is also at least one comic book series.
And the radio play is the original, though there came a point where multiple versions were being made simultaneously, then more radio episodes to finish out the book adaptions, and only now a movie.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has almost as many adaptions as has "The War of the Worlds". I wonder if they'll come out with an arcade game version next (Cinematronics did TWotW as an arcade game). Or pinball?
You know, when I first read the book, when I was quite young, I came to the part about the zebra crossing and became very confused.
As would most Americans, when we call them "crosswalks". "Zebra" is an essential part of the humor there. Also, the "I'm in the car park" joke just doesn't have the same punch with "parking lot".
But then we got the bit about the word Belgium inserted in our edition of the books to offset the sanitizing of the Rory for The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Fuck" in a Serious Screenplay. (Also "arsehole" was replaced with "kneebiter".)
Still, everyone got revisions about probability of rescues and the name of the writer of the worst poetry in the Universe due to problems of people calling phone numbers and the writer actually being a former classmate of Adams who wasn't amused (though in exchange for changing the name, we did get the actual poetry about dead swans).
Take off the tinfoil hat, dude. Checking all pics on the net for steganographic info is virtually impossible - just too much info to sort through in a reasonable time frame.
Well it still gives me pause over whether I should include steganographic images for an added level of fun on my website about an ongoing fictional war against terroristic force of alien invaders. That (as well as spinning current events into the fiction) I think would push just a few too many buttons.
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It comes five colors, which can then combine to form a giant robot?
A) Doing something dangerous to your life does not count, as you are fully aware of the risks you are taking.
Read it again: "acts dangerous to human life". Even if only dangerous to yourself, it's dangerous to your human life. There's no exception there for willingly putting yourself and only yourself in danger.
And coercion does not need to be physical; it can be coercion by moral force (recognized legally).
Unfortunately the only difference I can see between moral coercion and convincing based on a sound moral argument is whether the "convinced" party truly acceded voluntarily or seeks to prosecute. IANAL.
It was obvious that the acquittal would lead to pressure to create new laws to make it illegal for anyone else to do what Jon did. (As well as for him to continue to do what he did.)
Note also the MPAA's inflammatory language in their usage of "serial hackers" to associate them with "serial killers".
Because of first-day (day zero?) vulnerabilities with Windows XP, IMO Microsoft should have to provide all vendors of Windows XP with a CD to give to purchasers of Windows XP that will install all critical updates, and design the installer for all future revisions of the operating system package to have an "Insert Critical Updates CD" stage so that one need not ever boot a new Windows installation before patching these problems (abortable if there is no such CD).
And in cases where older versions are still on the shelf, CDs should still be provided free of charge to the end user, cost for Microsoft to bear. The company is rich enough to provide this service and not even feel it.
And every other OS vendor as well. Apple should be providing for free security update install CDs automatically at each of its points of sale (Apple stores will download them and burn them to CD for you), the various Linux vendor packages as well (those who download ISOs can get the updates just as easily), and anyone else I might be forgetting (SCO?).
"Crocodiles are considerably more aggressive, so having them stay in a place [downstream heat plume of one of the local nuclear power plants] where people can be easily convinced to avoid is a good thing."
Interesting that the fact that it is a place where aggressive crocodiles congregate isn't enough, and that the only hazardous areas we respect are those we make ourselves.
Sounds like we need human cloning before humans become endangered.
"Of course there will be exceptions, and I WAS only talking about home users, not professionals."
Though I risk being classified as one of your exceptions (and thus conveniently discounted in your arguments), I use Apple's Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro tools at home, and I'm no video professional. I'm a programmer, but I like playing around with video and want the best tools (on the platform that's best for me, YMMV).
Though I am getting by using a Blue & White G3 upgraded with a 550 MHz G4, a new G5 is in my future. More speed would be welcome to make two-pass VBI high quality DVD encoding take less than 2 days for 3 hours of video.
I do own one PC with Windows XP installed, but it is really just for gaming. (I concede that some games never come out for the Mac.) I also plan to replace it with a faster machine, turning this one into a Linux-based game and file server with gigabit Ethernet so my Mac doesn't need to be filled to (beyond design) capacity with drives.
"The bottom line is, I wonder why it's so exciting (that we have to post it on slashdot) that Apples are going superleetfast..."
If you have to ask, then you're not in Slashdot's target demographic.
"...when Apple owners don't need speed"
Here's a clue: that phrase is irrelevant to why it is Slashdot-newsworthy.
(And you're generalizing to all Apple owners again, not just non-professionals.)
Back in 1999, some BBS door functions stopped working, apparently due to running out of single-digit dates. *sigh*
GBBS "Pro" for the Apple II had a Y2K-like problem 10 years early. The author apparently didn't expect the software to still be in use beyond 1990, so 1989 was followed by "198:". First attempts to fix this by users resulted in systems thinking the year was "199:". But it caused no stability problems; it was purely cosmetic.
A later version fixed this, but also enforced the printing of a copyright notice to occur every time a user logged out. This was annoying for the sysops who scrapped the GBBS "Pro" code and wrote their own BBS atop/in the ACOS engine/language.
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What if a GloFish is released into a fishing pond? Where it's likely to either be eaten by another fish, or worse, mate.
"Yah, thems floater fishies sure're good eatin', an' ya can catch 'em real easy too."
-- Cletus the slack-jawed yokel
That which doesn't kill my food should make me stronger, or something like that.
Well, hopefully you aren't being fed fish that were found already dead of unknown causes, i.e. the fish were alive before being killed to turn them into food for you (and gutted, so any undigested GloFish won't be in your food either).
Me, I have no compulsion towards eating fish every Friday, or any other day for that matter.
I don't want to eat anything that's eaten something harmful to me, as that substance could be present in high enough concentrations to make me sick, or dead.
Better steer clear of all fish from Japan then, in case they may have taken a nibble from a Japanese pufferfish.
As long as it includes the ability to plug in paddles instead of a joystick and make your tank drive faster, albeit always turning.
I still have my Atari 2600's original paddles, but never had a game designed to use them, so they're still practically unused.
has anyone noticed that they've digitally altered the main charecter so that she is WEARING AN IPOD!!!!
It could have been worse: they could have replaced the sledgehammer with a walkie-talkie.
So it's not a Kodak then?
Did Spirit not take pictures... further?
Surely the same answers could apply to multiple blocks of code in multiple files, specified by range of line numbers, and further that IBM would rather have the information so organized than have to collate a line-by-line restatement of plaintiff's rights (i.e. grepping dead trees). The specificity by line numbers of blocks of code and the answers to the interrogatories referencing the specific blocks and therefore applying to every line referenced in the block could easily fit on 60 pages.
However, that only works for lines referenced as being in Linux code, not for the corresponding lines in their proprietary code. That would also need to be spelled out including the contents of every line. Disclosure of the lines in their proprietary code is necessary to verify the claim that it is their code. Disclosure of lines in Linux only lets you trace the history of the code in Linux.
Unless their code is already disclosed to IBM, then ranges of line numbers there is sufficient. Only the public would need full disclosure of the contents of all lines.
The problem is that we all have copies of this code already. The IP is question is already in the wild.
But (allegedly) buried in far more lines of code than they claim are infringing.
How is this not legal recognition of security through obscurity?
I know that Marvin could read it in Arthur's brain waves but where does it say that Eddie could?
They're both Sirius Cybernetic Corporation products with Genuine People Personalities. I wouldn't be surprised if the self-satisifed doors in the Heart of Gold and the precognitive lifts at the Guide's offices didn't also know.
But not necessarily from reading Arthur's mind.
Yeah, but "think of a number" isn't a question - so that obviously isn't the right one.
We're talking Douglas Adams here, not Alex Trebek. It would be perfect for him to have the Ultimate Question not even be in the form of a question.
And it explains the answer: the answer itself is meaningless, a number pulled out to provide the initial seed value for the Universe.
It also matches what he did in "Mostly Harmless" wrt Stavromula Beta: at the end of chapter 4, there's mention that Alpha was Stavro's original club in New York, now run by his brother Karl, and there being little love lost between Stavro and Karl Mueller, and if you were quick enough to figure it out on the first read, you thus knew then about Stavro Mueller's Beta.
You notice more on the rereadings of the 5-book trilogy than on the first.
...will be pissed when they find out that the Ultimate question about life, the universe, and everything, is never revealed.
But it was, twice, by Marvin and Eddie, in the third book.
I've already posted the relevant sections. It's a tribute to Adams' subtle writing style that most people still haven't picked up on it.
Remember also that the DVD and VHS releases have added footage that wasn't in the original run of the series, and the VHS release cut the line, "Arthur bruised his upper arm," when they re-edited the 6 episodes onto two tapes with one credit sequence each.
And again here, more blatently: Now that's bloody Informative!
Just a few days ago I found a DVD of the 1981 film version in a video store.
That would be the TV series.
There is also at least one comic book series.
And the radio play is the original, though there came a point where multiple versions were being made simultaneously, then more radio episodes to finish out the book adaptions, and only now a movie.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has almost as many adaptions as has "The War of the Worlds". I wonder if they'll come out with an arcade game version next (Cinematronics did TWotW as an arcade game). Or pinball?
You know, when I first read the book, when I was quite young, I came to the part about the zebra crossing and became very confused.
As would most Americans, when we call them "crosswalks". "Zebra" is an essential part of the humor there. Also, the "I'm in the car park" joke just doesn't have the same punch with "parking lot".
But then we got the bit about the word Belgium inserted in our edition of the books to offset the sanitizing of the Rory for The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Fuck" in a Serious Screenplay. (Also "arsehole" was replaced with "kneebiter".)
Still, everyone got revisions about probability of rescues and the name of the writer of the worst poetry in the Universe due to problems of people calling phone numbers and the writer actually being a former classmate of Adams who wasn't amused (though in exchange for changing the name, we did get the actual poetry about dead swans).
Take off the tinfoil hat, dude. Checking all pics on the net for steganographic info is virtually impossible - just too much info to sort through in a reasonable time frame.
Well it still gives me pause over whether I should include steganographic images for an added level of fun on my website about an ongoing fictional war against terroristic force of alien invaders. That (as well as spinning current events into the fiction) I think would push just a few too many buttons.
Did I get everything covered?
It comes five colors, which can then combine to form a giant robot?
("Gnat, Slightly Annoyed High-Pitched Buzzing Force.")
A) Doing something dangerous to your life does not count, as you are fully aware of the risks you are taking.
Read it again: "acts dangerous to human life". Even if only dangerous to yourself, it's dangerous to your human life. There's no exception there for willingly putting yourself and only yourself in danger.
And coercion does not need to be physical; it can be coercion by moral force (recognized legally).
Unfortunately the only difference I can see between moral coercion and convincing based on a sound moral argument is whether the "convinced" party truly acceded voluntarily or seeks to prosecute. IANAL.
Didn't someone already come out with a GTA-like game based in Springfield?
Yes. Yes I can believe the arrogance.
It was obvious that the acquittal would lead to pressure to create new laws to make it illegal for anyone else to do what Jon did. (As well as for him to continue to do what he did.)
Note also the MPAA's inflammatory language in their usage of "serial hackers" to associate them with "serial killers".
Serial thinkers?
Because of first-day (day zero?) vulnerabilities with Windows XP, IMO Microsoft should have to provide all vendors of Windows XP with a CD to give to purchasers of Windows XP that will install all critical updates, and design the installer for all future revisions of the operating system package to have an "Insert Critical Updates CD" stage so that one need not ever boot a new Windows installation before patching these problems (abortable if there is no such CD).
And in cases where older versions are still on the shelf, CDs should still be provided free of charge to the end user, cost for Microsoft to bear. The company is rich enough to provide this service and not even feel it.
And every other OS vendor as well. Apple should be providing for free security update install CDs automatically at each of its points of sale (Apple stores will download them and burn them to CD for you), the various Linux vendor packages as well (those who download ISOs can get the updates just as easily), and anyone else I might be forgetting (SCO?).
"Crocodiles are considerably more aggressive, so having them stay in a place [downstream heat plume of one of the local nuclear power plants] where people can be easily convinced to avoid is a good thing."
Interesting that the fact that it is a place where aggressive crocodiles congregate isn't enough, and that the only hazardous areas we respect are those we make ourselves.
Sounds like we need human cloning before humans become endangered.
Looks like they may have to put some bigger heatsinks on that Great Firewall.
"Of course there will be exceptions, and I WAS only talking about home users, not professionals."
Though I risk being classified as one of your exceptions (and thus conveniently discounted in your arguments), I use Apple's Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro tools at home, and I'm no video professional. I'm a programmer, but I like playing around with video and want the best tools (on the platform that's best for me, YMMV).
Though I am getting by using a Blue & White G3 upgraded with a 550 MHz G4, a new G5 is in my future. More speed would be welcome to make two-pass VBI high quality DVD encoding take less than 2 days for 3 hours of video.
I do own one PC with Windows XP installed, but it is really just for gaming. (I concede that some games never come out for the Mac.) I also plan to replace it with a faster machine, turning this one into a Linux-based game and file server with gigabit Ethernet so my Mac doesn't need to be filled to (beyond design) capacity with drives.
"The bottom line is, I wonder why it's so exciting (that we have to post it on slashdot) that Apples are going superleetfast..."
If you have to ask, then you're not in Slashdot's target demographic.
"...when Apple owners don't need speed"
Here's a clue: that phrase is irrelevant to why it is Slashdot-newsworthy.
(And you're generalizing to all Apple owners again, not just non-professionals.)
y1.957k.
It's still 1024 for me no matter what SI says.
Then go take a 1 km walk off a 1000 m pier.
Back in 1999, some BBS door functions stopped working, apparently due to running out of single-digit dates. *sigh*
GBBS "Pro" for the Apple II had a Y2K-like problem 10 years early. The author apparently didn't expect the software to still be in use beyond 1990, so 1989 was followed by "198:". First attempts to fix this by users resulted in systems thinking the year was "199:". But it caused no stability problems; it was purely cosmetic.
A later version fixed this, but also enforced the printing of a copyright notice to occur every time a user logged out. This was annoying for the sysops who scrapped the GBBS "Pro" code and wrote their own BBS atop/in the ACOS engine/language.